mickee23

Remember, no matter what happens...no matter what you see...no matter how much proof is placed before you...no matter how hot it gets...there is no global warming...it is not happening...there is no global warming...Listen only to Rush, watch only Fox NEWS...chant the mantra...there is no global warming...

The democrats take money from the corporations and the rich and the republicans take money AND even let the lobbyists write laws for them! Repubicans think "corporations are people" but the poor are not. It may shock republicans to know that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams hated corporations and even wanted an 11th amendment to control them. Here is the proof:Thomas Jefferson's Failed 11th Amendment -- a check on corporate power
Most Americans don’t know it but Thomas Jefferson, along with James Madison worked assiduously to have an 11th Amendment included into our nation’s original Bill of Rights. This proposed Amendment would have prohibited “monopolies in commerce.” The amendment would have made it illegal for corporations to own other corporations, or to give money to politicians, or to otherwise try to influence elections. Corporations would be chartered by the states for the primary purpose of “serving the public good.” Corporations would possess the legal status not of natural persons but rather of “artificial persons.” This means that they would have only those legal attributes which the state saw fit to grant to them. They would NOT; and indeed could NOT possess the same bundle of rights which actual flesh and blood persons enjoy. Under this proposed amendment neither the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, nor any provision of that document would protect the artificial entities known of as corporations.

Jefferson and Madison were so insistent upon this amendment because the American Revolution was in substantial degree a revolt against the domination of colonial economic and political life by the greatest multinational corporation of its age: the British East India Company. After all who do you think owned the tea which Sam Adams and friends dumped overboard in Boston Harbor? Who was responsible for the taxes on commodities and restrictions on trade by the American colonists? It was the British East India Company, of course. In the end the amendment was not adopted because a majority in the first Congress believed that already existing state laws governing corporations were adequate for constraining corporate power. Jefferson worried about the growing influence of corporate power until his dying day in 1826. Even the more conservative founder John Adams came to harbor deep misgivings about unchecked corporate power.

Sorry, I own 11 guns. You're thinking is limited.You can go to another state and buy any type of firearm and then bring it back to NY. You think there is some kind of gun check-point surrounding NY? Yeah, I don't think you should be able to walk into Gander Mountain and buy a gun like it was a bag of apples at Tops. Every single year in America about 10,000 people die via firearms. It is like a small town getting killed every year. A gun safety test would be a small thing to ask for. I know I'd pass. Now a mental health test...we need that! I think a few gun owners might fail that one. It might stop one or two mass killings.

Patients who retire early and are no longer covered under his former employer's insurance and too young to qualify for Medicare are left with few choices. Affordable health insurance can have steep deductibles of as much as $10,000. To affort semielective health and dental care, some US patients are resorting to medical tourism. At the moment,most medical tourism candidates are uninsured and underinsured people paying their own bills and looking for low-cost alternatives to American care. They are willing to overlook the lack of US medical standards to save money.

At least 85,000 Americans choose to travel abroad for medical procedures each year, according to a recent report by the consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Treatment includes dental implants, hip and knee replacements, heart valve replacements and bypass surgery. The cost of surgery performed overseas can be as little as 20 percent of the price of the same procedure in the United States, according to a recent report by the American Medical Association.

Medical tourism is expected to expand quickly in the coming years because of rising health care costs in the United States, increasing availability of international facilities with United States accreditation, and the fact that insurers and employers are beginning to embrace the practice.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina, for example, has started a subsidiary company, Companion Global Healthcare, to offer medical tourism services to individuals and businesses. Hannaford supermarkets in Maine recently added an international option for hip replacements to its health care plan.

At the moment, however, the bulk of medical tourism candidates are uninsured and underinsured people paying their own bills and looking for low-cost alternatives to American care. Medical tourism advocates argue that the quality of care overseas is often equal to or better than that in the United States. Many countries have high success rates, American-trained English-speaking doctors and the newest facilities, often built specifically to attract foreign patients.

Actually your numbers are misleading. When people are asked about "Obamacare" they are against it but when they are asked about the clauses covered under it, they are for it. For example:Nearly everyone is in favor of being able to you children under your health insurance until age 26. Nearly everyone wants to end the exclusion of people with "pre-existing" conditions.

No, we need to tax the rich! Which country is the richest on earth? America, of course! We hear it from our politicians, our school teachers, or news media. And looking strictly at total combined wealth, we are the richest....by a lot. According to a 2011 study by Allianz - the United States has over $41 trillion in combined wealth. Second is Japan - with far less than half the wealth of the United States at just over $14 trillion. So we're number one right?! Well, not exactly...Our nation's combined wealth IS astronomically high. But that’s only because there are a heck of a lot of billionaires living here. In fact, about a third of the world's billionaires live in America. That's 412 billionaires that live in America - and second on the list is China with only 115 billionaires. So are total wealth is inflated by all the billionaires that live here. If you want a true measure of how wealthy the United States ACTUALLY is - then you have to look at median wealth, or how much Americans in the middle are making. Under that criteria - the United States doesn’t even crack the top ten in the world. According to a report by Credit Suisse, 15 OECD nations have a higher median wealth than the United States. That includes nations like Australia, Japan, and Israel. It also includes European nations that are in crisis like the Spain, Italy, and Ireland. Why do so many of us feel poor? The money in America is in the hands a few people and they avoid taxes. Ask Mitt Rob-me, why he has money hidden overseas?

If you started a business, you had police protection. If you drove on a road, it was paid for with tax dollars. If you got a loan for college it was probably at least backed by the government. If you sent out flyers in the mail, it was delivered by the post office. You had teachers and fire protection too. Yeah, somebody helped you get that business going. Sorry, but nobody does it all alone.

I am a gun owner and a hunter. I am in favor of the right to fire arms but I also feel we need to make it illegal for a mentally ill person to buy a firearm. We made need an actual test to keep weapons out of the hands of the insane. We also need to have a gun safety test before selling anyone a gun. I know someone will say,What if about 10 people in that theater had been armed...
and they pulled out their guns to kill the shooter, what's your guess what would happen?

Tear gas is blinding people's eyes, the audience is panicking and you can hear their screams and cries.

Those who are armed pull out their weapons in good faith hoping to stop the shooter. They aim for where the shots are coming from. How is one to know if that is a single shooter? Would you know? Would you aim your gun at another person holding a weapon? Would you believe them if they swore they weren't the original shooter?

Yeah, it is still Bush's fault. ...and as for Chris Dodd, he tried to help people...Here is the proof:Bush threatens VETO of FORECLOSURE RELIEF bill
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WASHINGTON - A massive foreclosure rescue bill overwhelmingly cleared a key Senate test Tuesday, drawing broad support from Democrats and Republicans alike.

The Senate voted 83-9 to speed up work on the $300 billion mortgage aid plan, putting it on track for a final vote as early as the end of the day.

Sorry, but the article came from AP not me. Bush and the Republican Congress ran up most of the debt from 2000-2006. That was when he gave the richest 1% a huge tax cut and Bush got us into two wars. None of which was paid for. Nice try ! But your Bush fuzzy math doesn't work!

Yeah, it still is Bush's fault. We had a surplus in 2000 and were setup to pay off the debt in 10 years. Our economy was booming. Jobs were plentiful. All that needed to be done was... Nothing. Just let it ride.

9/11 should have been a cost shared, international police action. Not invade and destroy a country that had nothing to do with either 9/11 or with terrorism. And then ship them Billion of dollars on shrink wrapped pallets to bribe those left with the power in Iraq, to silence their opposition to their country's destruction and to grease the theft of their oil.

What did bush and the republicans do here? They Cut taxes. They Outsourced good Living Wage Jobs. They Started two unnecessary wars on our children's credit card. They deregulated the big banks, financial institutions and Wall Street, allowing them to not only gamble with our money, but to keep the winnings from their gambling and to socialize their losses at our expense. Oh, and lets not forget Bush's unfunded drug bill!
The financial institutions got bailed out, but Main Street did not. Main Street is too close to the people for the Republicans to help. In other words the Republicans bailed on and not out of Main Street. The Republicns blamed the ballooning deficit on government spending for well run programs. Programs that actually helped American citizens. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Unemployment insurance, and a host of smaller programs that benefited the 99%. Programs that the Well-To-Do don't need.

Let us not ignore the Republican tax cuts, except for lying to us, US by trying to tell us less government revenue generated more money for the government to spend. Republicans have all but ignored the Pentagon Defense budget. A defense budget as large as the rest of the world combined. It got only a token "cut". They all but ignored the deregulation of our financial institutions that are at the root of the recession/depression we are currently enjoying. .

And don't forget Grover Norquest's treasonous "No New Tax pledge". A pledge that most Republicans in Congress signed.
However, everyone in Congress also took a oath to uphold the Constitution. An oath that overrides any other oaths or pledges they may have taken. Who do the republicans serve, the people or Grover?

Ohhh Rock, you are such a silly person. You do know that the republicans have blocked or tried to block everything the democrats have done to help people who have been foreclosed on. The republicans love the Banksters. Here is some proof: White House veto threat on home refinance bill
Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto a Republican bill that would abolish an Obama administration program aimed at helping people refinance homes that are worth less than they paid for them.

The veto threat could be the first of several as House Republicans begin working on bills terminating four administration-backed programs aimed at preventing foreclosures.

The House Financial Services Committee voted last week to terminate the Federal Housing Administration Refinance Program on a 33-22 party line vote. Republicans, who hold the majority in the House, said the program had not worked and was a waste of money, while Democrats said it was part of a drive to help homeowners still reeling from weak housing prices and a glut of foreclosures.

The program began last September and has so far helped 63 so-called underwater homeowners convert their mortgages into more affordable FHA-insured loans, according to Housing and Urban Development Department figures. It is backed with $8.1 billion set aside from the $700 billion federal financial bailout of 2008 - money that would only be spent if one of the newly refinanced mortgages falls into default.

Ohhh, you silly person...you are using the Old: "Obama cannot keep blaming Bush for these problems", talking point!
That is the Republican mantra I have heard several times on television talk shows.

As if there is a statute of limitations on massive republican screw-ups? So, it is Obama's fault because he didn't clean up Bush's giant mess yet? Really?

No matter how terrible Bush was or how awful was the mess he left, no one can blame him for anything after one year. That is a crock of poop-poop!

Bush and the Republicans destroyed this country and our economy. There is no quick fix. This is not an ordinary recession. This was a total destruction of our regulations and rules of economy.

It is unrealistic to believe that we will recover in the same way we have in previous downturns. Those that think so are living in a dreamworld. The banks took all your money and you're not getting it back. Sorry.

How long will it take to recover? Nobody knows. But we do know that we cannot return to the economy we had for the last eight years. It is decimated. It is gone.

No, it is not possible to fix it in one year. Maybe not in ten years? So I will continue to blame those responsible until we can see some daylight at the end of the tunnel. I will not stop blaming Bush and the Republicans until that happens. I sure hope peole are not stupid enough to give the republicans back any control after the mess they made.

Really?, "Tax cuts stimulate the economy" Is that why the ecomony is just roaring along now? Look Silly Person, We've had more tax cuts than ever...As a matter of fact taxes have never been this low! So I don't know what you think you leaned in 7th grade but it is clearly WRONG!

Thank you former President Bush, YOUR "AWESOME" leadership gave us this great recession! Lets give the rich more tax cuts and de-regulate the banksters some more! I hope the soon-to-be homeless Americans vote out the republicans for good!

Rush says: "There is no global warming"...keep chanting the mantra...no matter what happens...no matter what you see...remember there is no such thing as global warming...don't use your brain...listen only to Rush...there is no global warming...

The drug companies reward doctors for getting more and more people hooked. More drug users equals more money for them. This is the direct result of a medical system for profit. Our doctors have become drug dealers.